Ruins : classical theater and broken memory / Odai Johnson.
| Series | Theater: theory/text/performance Theater--theory/text/performance. ^A271259 |
| Contents | Introduction : the size of all that's missing -- Prologue : the unmixed prior -- Domesticating Dionysus -- The fining of Phrynicus : shaping memory and genre in Athens -- Broken shards and buried barbs : ostracism and weaponized comedy -- The serene face of Menander; or, "the dipper dipped" -- Unspeakable histories : terror, spectacle, and genocidal memory on the Roman stage -- Mapping Rome : becoming Togati -- Mapping Rome : shitting on Romans -- Mapping Rome : rules for borrowing memory -- Savage cuisine/The city of always -- Antiquity's last supper -- The damnatio of the gods : theater and resistance in the pagan holocaust -- Epilogue : the lacuna in the text. |
| Abstract | "This book traces the remains, the remembering, and the forgetting of performance traditions of classical theater. In ten wide-ranging case studies, theater history and performance theory are brought together to examine the texts, artifacts, and icons left behind"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Johnson, Odai, 1959- author. Ruins Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018 9780472124398 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018052537 |
| ISBN | 9780472131068 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0472131060 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0472124390 |
| ISBN | 9780472124398 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PA3201 .J64 2018 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |